CVE-2006-1859

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CVE-2006-1859

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CVE-2006-1859 at MITRE

Description

Memory leak in __setlease in fs/locks.c in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified actions related to an "uninitialised return value," aka "slab leak."

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 174256 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2006:042, published Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:00:00 +0000

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CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:23:10 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:15:51 2023